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Giro D'Italia Stage 2
I'm away out early so i thought i would start todays stage off before i went.
Does everyone agree its a bunch sprint finish or will someone try to grab the limelight with a breakaway.
Will Orica try to cut down any breaks for Matthews, do they have the team to do that ? only time will tell.
I doubt he will be looking at this but my sympathies go to Dan Martin 
Also can someone explain why Matthews got 30 points and Hepburn 20 ? i thought all the team members scored the same in a TTT.
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giro website la gazetta
1,2,4,5,8, and 12 I think plus Durbridge
Sprint
1 Fedi
2 Armee
3 Tjallingi
6,4,2
Chicchi punctures!
2nd Cat 4
1 Tjallingi
2 Fedi
3 Armee
Petacchi told CN this morning that he wouldn't contest the sprint but they're trying to keep Uran out of trouble for now.
Thought that might be the case but we'll see! Might swap him and someone else out for Bouhanni depending on what happens today. He punctured today but a long way from the finish. He's the one I don't have I'm a bit worried about.
Pettachi
Viviani
Kittel
Matthews
Ferrari
Chicci
Durbridge
Belkov
Bouhanni
No pens
First time I've announced my team on the forum
Lancaster
Matthews
Oss
Wyss
Petacchi
Nizzolo
Ventoso
Viviani
Kittel
no pens
Cat 4
1 Tjallingi
2 Romero
3 Fedi
3,2,1 points
Good day for both of us yesterday. Went for Durbridge rather than Lancaster in the end.
Today I've got
Kitten
Viviani
Matthews
Swift
Ventoso
Ferrari
Appollonio
Petacchi
Durbridge
2 pens though for Ferrari and Appollonio, more for 3 and particularly 4 than today but thought I might as well do them early as they might get something today as well.
Who have you got?
http://www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/2014/it/diretta-tempo-reale/
This is the team...no pens
Edvald Boasson Hagen (SKY)
AR Value: 29.3 Form: 2.40
Ben Swift (SKY)
AR Value: 19.0 Form: 9.40 popular rider In form rider
Michael Matthews (OGE)
AR Value: 24.1 Form: 17.20 popular rider Dream team In form rider
Elia Viviani (CAD)
PC Value: 25.7 Form: 6.00 popular rider
Steve Morabito (BMC)
DS Value: 8.8 Form: 10.40 In form rider
Yannick Eijssen (BMC)
DS Value: 9.1 Form: 9.60 In form rider
Francisco Jose Ventoso (MOV)
PC Value: 17.8 Form: 2.00
Marcel Kittel (GSH)
PC Value: 25.6 Form: 7.40 popular rider
Alessandro Petacchi (OPQ)
PC Value: 19.7 Form: 10.60 popular rider In form rider
Make the results section of the roundup shorter than the preview of the coming stages based on how they have been riding I would suggest.
Got Romero in my standard
Wow, thanks guys, really appreciate it. Hoping to do a bit more, maybe a weekly roundup or something. We'll also be doing a monthly cricket podcast, and quite a lot of stuff during the World Cup and the TdF, so its going to be a busy summer! Follow me on Twitter if you're interested, so I don't have to annoy people on here that aren't!
pretty cool mate, impressed
It was good mate, enjoyed it. Will listen in again. Perhaps you fancy doing one for a stage?
Four riders in the break, 3 mins up.
Fedi
Tjallingii
Corredor
Armee
Listening now
Thanks man! My twitter is @ownaccord if you want to let me know what you thought.
Followed you (@MultiplexSlut) and looking forward to listening when I get spare mo.
Hooray - Armee in my purists. Dan Martin also in my purists tho, swings & roundabouts!
Early break
Tjallingi LTB
Armee (LTB)
Romero (COL)
Fedi (NRI)
1.15 after 10k
Fernandez (GRS) dns
Lead up to 5' after 30k
Bouhanni
Swift
Kittel
Viviani
Ferrari
Nizollo
Chichi
Matthews
Quintero (for Fernandez)
Hoping for the top 3 at least
By the way, if anyone is very bored, here is the preview podcast we recorded at my local radio station. I got a couple of facts slightly wrong but in general I think it sounds fine. All good/bad feedback welcome!
http://cambridge105.fm/podcasts/105-sport-09-05-2014/
We have a celebrity!!
nice work O Stripey One!!
Ha, thanks! It's just a volunteer-run community station, I'm not getting recognised on the streets of cambridge just yet. Trying to get a few more people interested in following the cycling what with the tour coming and everything...
Nice one Stumps, I couldn't resist Boem either - he just loves those breakaways!
Bouhanni
Kittel
Matthews
Swift
Viviani
Petacchi
D Wyss
Hurel
Boem
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